Alexandra Alex Vause is an inmate at Litchfield Penitentiary and the on-and-off lover of main character Piper Chapman. She is portrayed by Laura Prepon. Alex's character is based on Nora (in reality named Catherine Cleary Wolters) in the memoir, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Womenâs Prison.
On 1 January 1905, the IRN created the world's first operational submarine fleet around these seven submarines. The first combat patrol sent out by the newly created IRN submarine fleet occurred on 14 February 1905 and was carried out by Delfin and Som, with each patrol normally lasting about 24 hours.
Contrary to the opinions of the popular press, the story of undersea warfare in the Civil War is not limited to nor initiated by the C.S.S. Hunley. That boat s only unique claim to fame is that it was the first submarine to engage and sink an enemy vessel. Other submarines had sortied on combat patrols almost two years previous and another Confederate boat may also have sunk a Union warship in Mobile Bay.